Category: Travel

I Drove Through é€¢ç”²å¤œå¸‚

Post author By [cloud]
Post date Sunday, 15 November, 2009, 8:45pm
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I drove down to to Taichung (å°ä¸) to attend my cousin’s wedding. Since it was such a long drive my wife decided to stay the weekend over there.

GPS worked well, it took me from Taipei to Taichung without much of a problem.

However, GPS doesn’t seem to know é€¢ç”²å¤œå¸‚. On my way leaving from the wedding venue to the hotel, GPS too me right through the one of the crowded streets of Taichung City.

Luckily, it was only 3:30 in the afternoon. All the stores and food stands only just started preparing, but it was already very crowded, and people were starting moving in by the seconds. At one point, my car was virtually stuck in the middle of the nightmarket. People were staring at me and probably thinking why the heck would a car come driving in here?

The conclusion is, GPS knows roads, but it does not know places.

Tags car, taichung, wedding

Personal Travel

Back From Hong Kong

Post author By [cloud]
Post date Thursday, 27 August, 2009, 9:07pm
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It was good, but Hong Kong Disneyland was not very good.

I did get a lot of clothing from UNICLO.

I hate going back to work.

Tags hong kong, travel

Personal Travel

What I did in Hong Kong

I spent the whole afternoon watching planes take off and land…

I also saw one of our netbooks at the Sound and Vision electronics stores…

Then I just wandered around aimlessly for three hours with a mask on because of swine virus.

It was a painfully boring afternoon.

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Personal Travel

Bad Timing

Swine virus outbreak is really frightening, everyday in newspaper or television, people tell you to avoid travelling overseas.

But guess what? I am going to Hong Kong tomorrow!

To make things even more interesting, just tonight there is a confirmed case of swine virus in Hong Kong.

Shit.

Tags hong kong, travel

Personal Travel

Back Again

Post author By [cloud]
Post date Sunday, 1 February, 2009, 7:46pm
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It was such a short trip, and now I am back in Taipei.

Gosh I really I really miss Melbourne. I really had a great time.

Hope I can go back again in July.

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Personal Travel

So So Hot

Post author By [cloud]
Post date Friday, 30 January, 2009, 10:17pm
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I am experiencing quite a lot of strange weather changes recently.

I was in Turkey last year and experienced the coldest day in 10 years, around -10 degrees celsius.
During my honeynoon, when I was in France some said it was the first time since 1937 where it snowed in an October.

This time back in Melbourne, I experiencied three consecutive days of temperatures above 43 degrees celsius, which is the first time in the history of Melbourne weather bureau since records began in 1855.

Coincidently, the mercury peaked at 45 degrees celsius yoday, the hottest in 70 years.

Great, all of these weather changes is making me think one thing. The end of the world is coming.

Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco are playing their semi-final match at the Australian Open right now. I hope Nadal wins.

Tags australia, melbourne, travel, turkey

Personal Travel

So Hot

Post author By [cloud]
Post date Wednesday, 28 January, 2009, 11:47pm
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Only a few days back in Melbourne I am already experience something I haven’t experienced in a long time.

Heat.

Melbourne is expecting a four consecutive days of 40 degrees Celsius or more in more than a decade.

Today is the first day, and the weather bureau records the the hottest in six years, at 43.4 degrees.

They expect tomorrow to get even hotter. Oh boy, I cannot wait.

Tags australia, melbourne, travel, weather

Travel Work

Now, this is FAST!

Post author By [cloud]
Post date Thursday, 4 September, 2008, 10:42pm
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Back in my hotel room, at a rather less populated area near Tokyo called Ochanomizu, I noticed the Internet speed here was rather fast.

First I thought it was the new Google Chrome browser which made the difference. Then I noticed BT was working silently in the background. I opened it up and these were the figures at the time:

I have been using dial up back in Taiwan? This speed is incredible! The upload speed is faster than my average download speed in Taiwan, it’s just amazing.

This 2gb file suddenly finished downloading in a mere 15 minutes. Looks like I have something else to do tonight.